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Cocaine 'worth €50m' discovered at Coca-Cola plant

Coca-Cola bottles
Cocaine with a street value of up to 50 million euros (£42m) has been discovered at a Coca-Cola plant in France.
The drug, hidden in bags among a delivery of orange juice concentrate, arrived in a container from South America.

An investigation is under way in Signes, a village in southern France.
The seizure of 370kg of cocaine makes it one of the largest finds on French soil.

Employees at the Coca-Cola plant have been ruled out of any involvement as investigators attempt to trace the origin of the drug. 

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